THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
Shiva Ayyadurai is an inventor who owns the first US patent on email, and he is offering to give his $10 million building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Monsanto if the company can disprove his claim that there are no safety-assessment standards for GMOs. Ayyadurai offered the wager after he studied GMO plants and says he found high levels of formaldehyde in them. Path 2015 Nov 6 (Story) (Cached)
The White House has released the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty. The treaty text will be under the microscope of Congress and the public for 90 days before President Obama can sign the agreement. Under fast-track rules, Congress is prohibited from amending the TPP deal. The Hill 2015 Nov 5 (Story)
US: ‘Cracka’ is the teenage leader of ‘Crackas With Attitude’ (CWA) who claimed to break into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account a few weeks ago. Now he is claiming responsibility for publishing a list of more than 3,500 names, phone numbers, and email addresses of law enforcement and military personnel. Cracka says he has done this in support of Palestine. CWA claims to have hacked access to several “tools feds use” such as JABS, a database of arrested people; IC3, an FBI crime-reporting tool; and VCC, a sharing tool for law enforcement agencies. Finally, he says he has access to private information of every US citizen but does not intend to use it against anyone like the government does. Vice Motherboard 2015 Nov 5 (Story) (Cached)
After dismissing the ISIS claim that they took down a Russian airliner, officials now say that ISIS probably planted a bomb on the plane that crashed over Sinai. Mainstream media is avoiding mentioning the fact that the US government supports ISIS. ABC News 2015 Nov 5 (Story)
Los Angeles County is running an experiment by equipping ten homes with cisterns to collect rainwater from rooftops for yard irrigation. The system will monitor water flow and will communicate with the Internet and other smart cistern networks, similar to smart meters. The radiation-emitting cisterns cost $25,000, but a simple cistern without government involvement costs about $3,000. ABC News 2015 Nov 5 (Story)
The US Senate voted for a “resolution of disapproval” against the EPA’s new rules that control small streams, tributaries and wetlands. This is a non-binding resolution and appears to be merely symbolic, because Obama has said he will veto it anyway. The EPA rules have been halted for now by this action and numerous federal lawsuits. CNBC 2015 Nov 4 (Story) (Cached)
The water utility company for Washington, DC, has installed a system that turns sewage into electricity. It extracts water from the solid waste, cooks the residue, and then introduces microbes that break down organic matter and produce methane gas. The gas is used to power turbines that generate one-third of the power needed to run the entire plant. The savings each year are greater than the entire cost of building the installation. Oh, yes. the dehydrated and purified waste material is sold as highly mineralized soil. AP 2015 Nov 4 (Story)
Obama is sending twelve F-15C planes to Syria to confront Russia with the possibility of a direct war. The planes are a specific counter-force to the Russian Su-30 air-to-air combat planes. In essence, Obama is telling Putin that he must stop his action in Syria, including attacks against ISIS – otherwise, US planes will attack Russian forces. InfoWars 2015 Nov 4 (Story) (Cached)
A speech by Senator Rand Paul has gone viral on the Internet and already has received 60-million views. Paul spoke out against a bill that was passed in the middle of the night without debate or chance for amendment that removed the debt limit and took $150 billion from the Social Security fund to be used for current general expenditures. [The intense interest in this speech suggests that Americans finally are beginning to take an interest in what the political mob is doing to them.] Real Clear Politics 2015 Nov 4 (Story)
Portion of the speech relating to Social Security.
Here are additional details of Senator Rand Paul’s speech against unlimited debt. Paul concludes by saying that the left and the right have come together in an unholy alliance to explode the debt. The left gets more welfare, the right gets more military contracts, and the taxpayer is stuck with the deal. CNS News 2015 Nov 2 (Story) (Cached)
A political-action committee run by a supporter of Hillary Clinton is using child actors to deliver vulgar phrases and gestures and racist comments. The thrust of the attack video is against Republicans and Donald Trump in particular. InfoWars 2015 Nov 4 (Story)
Dozens of young people across the US, who are under 18, have been enlisted by climate activists to be plaintiffs in a lawsuit, against states and the federal government, that demands government action on climate change. Using kids as a front for this suit is a clever public-relations ploy but does not materially affect the merits of the case. A major flaw in these cases is that states cannot alter the weather. All they can do is collect carbon taxes in the name of altering the weather. NY Times 2015 Nov 2 (Story) (Cached)
Shimon Peres, the 92-year old former president of Israel says that Israel should implement the two-state solution because the Jews are losing their majority and, if they cannot regroup into a smaller zone, they will not be able to maintain a Jewish state. Peres has negotiated with the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and he believes that dealing with Abbas is the best chance for peace. AP 2015 Nov 2 (Story) (Cached)
A Russian airliner seemingly disintegrated over the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board. ISIS claimed responsibility for the downed aircraft, which is likely because ISIS released a video of the explosion, indicating that it knew exactly when and where the explosion would take place. Now there is a rush of official speculations and contradictory reports that, for now at least, puts everything into doubt. ZeroHedge 2015 Nov 1 (Story) (Cached)
The UN climate conference set in Paris will launch a $90-trillion energy-investment market. A Carbon Tracker forum this week was packed with bankers and fund managers itching to find ways into the biggest investment boom of all time. The competition is between fossil fuels and renewable energies such as wind and solar. China is a major player on the side of solar. All wind and solar players favor carbon taxes to give themselves a competitive edge over fossil fuels. Telegraph 2015 Oct 31 (Story) (Cached)
Microsoft is preparing to automatically download Windows 10 into computers without users’ consent. It also is reported that Windows 10 is able to track your online behavior and will save search queries, private emails, and contents of private folders, including photos. Only some of those functions can be turned off. WND 2015 Oct 31 (Story) (Cached)
Sumte, a small town in Germany with a population of 102 people, has been forced to house 750 migrants from the Middle East. Most of the migrants are young men, and residents expect a crime wave. Officials have attempted to calm their fears by promising to leave the streetlights on all night. Daily Caller 2015 Oct 31 (Story) (Cached)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused billionaire investor, George Soros, of financially supporting the massive refugee movement into EU nations for the purpose of undermining those nations. Soros, who was born in Hungary, gives grants to organizations that provide legal assistance to asylum seekers. Bloomberg posted 2015 Oct 31 (Story) (Cached)

